Are Computers Still a Bicycle for the Mind?

Steve Jobs had an enormous appreciation for the computer, believing it was the greatest human invention, and he commonly likened it to a bic...

What Would Happen If We Created AGI?

This is the big question surrounding AI. In reality, nobody knows, and I'm not going to claim that I do either. I'm merely going to ...

Is Artificial General Intelligence Possible?

We all know that general intelligence is possible. We have living, breathing proof right in front of the mirror. Humans ask wide-ranging que...

The Nature of Intelligence

In my last post I wrote an epic review of two books that delved into the nature of intelligence and the limits of computation: Gödel, Esche...

Tech Book Face Off: Gödel, Escher, Bach Vs. The Annotated Turing

Quite a while ago, I made a list of the best Steve Yegge posts , and one of those posts was his Ten Challenges post on ten recommended book...